[GTO JUDGE]

Originally Posted by flyingn

Please, i am not saying you don't put on a good show, I just wanted to possibly help you to put on a better show, that's all. Most of my serious show car friends all feel the same way as me and I truly believe you will get a bigger turnout if you get a group of Judges together, train them on what to look for and set em loose. Just helping you

No offense, I understand what you're saying. We pulled in a few cars shy of 200 Pontiac's last year. For us to judge each car will take an armada of people. To properly judge we'd have to hold a technical seminar and go through a process. Then these volunteers would forfeit their day working and not enjoying the show. Then we'd have to have another group assembling awards and such. We do not give out trophies for class winners our awards are personalized each guest gets a picture of their car, we send them out during the show to have them professionally processed. It takes quite a few people to assemble awards. Add that body of people onto the armada of judges, well you can see where I am going with this.

If we'd judge it would be first class, not take volunteers and ask hey point as you see fit. My see fit is different than the next guys. It would have to be done right. We want people to come back not get ticked off cause this judge was not to the caliber the owner thinks he or she should be.

One thing that differentiates our show and other Pontiac shows from the standard ones is Pontiac people are like a family. I see many of the same folks from our show at other shows. We don't have the typical buddy system of 20 buddies voting for ones car. Believe me I witnessed what you referenced MANY times at many non Pontiac shows. It just doesn't happen at our show. Sure you're gonna get buddies voting for each other thats pretty much normal in a PV show but the group votes don't happen. We'd see it through our computer based software we use. Rarely does the same person win best of class multiple years. Our PV run show doesn't experience what many other mixed events do.

If one's car is of concours quality people will vote for it. We put our show on for our guests and every few years we include in the goodybag a questionnaire on what do you think could be improved, or what would you like to see added or removed. It's overwhelming, don't change a thing. We listen to our guests. The only thing we won't do that was asked is include a swap meet. That is not a format we're interested in at this time. If a majority of our guests wanted a judged show then we'd consider it. We're employing the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach.

I do appreciate your input Frank I am all for improving our show, our show is for fun, it's not a serious National event, most of the cars are driver quality cars and those that are national winners, have no problems winning at our show. Thanks for your input. .